If a butterfly flaps it’s wings in China, so the old saying goes, a hurricane in Britain will not be far behind. The point, of course, is that even though we may not be able to see it, everything is connected and just like an inflated balloon, you can’t push it in here without something popping out over there. Well, thanks to a conflation of modern technology and the ancient forces of nature, we now have another example to use. If a volcano erupts in Iceland, people will be sleeping in airports all over the world. Count on it.
There are so many lessons to be learned here that it boggles the imagination. First, of course, is the aforementioned interconnectedness of it all. This really is a small planet and an incident like this just goes to prove that nothing happens in a vacuum. Be it a force of nature or an act of humanity, our lives are constantly affected by what is occurring half way around the world, in towns and villages and frozen mountain tops whose names we’ll never be able to pronounce. Just ask someone with a family member in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Second is the fact that we’ve known all along, how everything is related back to money. “Airlines are losing $200 million a day”, scream the headlines on the news, showing where the purported impact of this incident lies. Could it be that in these fragile economic times some airline is existing so hand to mouth that it will be forced to close its doors because of an unexpected increase in the amount of microscopic particulate in the atmosphere? Who cares, other than that airline’s stockholders.
Third, and most important, though it seems to be the hardest lesson for us to learn, is the sheer power, force, and impartiality of nature. Although humans think we run the show, we really don’t. We’re guests here on Mother Earth and could be rendered completely inert and irrelevant with just the slightest little planetary hiccup that wouldn’t even be noticed throughout 99.9% of the universe.
On August 27th, 1883, the island of Krakatoa between Java and Sumatra exploded with a sound heard over 2800 miles away, producing tsunamis over 130 feet high, sending fireballs over 250 miles, and killing over 36,000 people.
On April 10, 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia erupted, killing 10,000 people immediately, and sending plumes of ash into the stratosphere that were carried by prevailing winds around the world, darkening the sky so much that for the entire year following, 1816, they blocked the sun, lowered temperatures, and minimized the growing season causing another 86,000 people to die of starvation round the world.
If Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano continues to empty its belly of ash and soot into the atmosphere, how soon will it be before air travel and airline profits are no longer our main concern? How would we handle a worldwide disaster on top of the number that seem to have recently occurred? And will we learn anything about how we must cease our petty bickering about who owns what and what is the right way to live and pray and instead work together in an attempt to survive on this tiny ball of rock hurtling through space? How big must the disaster be before we get the message?
peace…………..ag
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